merces

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈmɛr.keːs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈmɛr.t͡ʃes]

mercēs

1. nominative/accusative/vocative plural of merx

From merx (“merchandise”).

mercēs f (genitive mercēdis); third declension

1. pay, wages, reward

   Synonyms: praemium, pretium, stīpendium, oblātiō, commodum

   • 405 CE, Jerome, Vulgate Matthew.5.11–12:

     Beati estis cum maledixerint vobis, et persecuti vos fuerint, et dixerint omne malum adversum vos mentientes, propter me: gaudete, et exultate, quoniam merces vestra copiosa est in caelis.

     Blessed are ye, when men shall curse you, and persecute you, and, lying, speak all ill of you, because of me: rejoice, and exult, for your reward is abundant in heaven.

2. revenue, income

   Synonym: exitus

3. chastisement, punishment, penalty

   Synonyms: pūnītiō, sānctiō, poena, supplicium, exemplum, vindicātiō, vindicta, animadversus, malum, pretium

4. rent
5. bribe

Third-declension noun.

• mercēdārius
• mercēdituum
• mercēdonius
• mercēdula
• mercēnārius/mercēnnārius

mercēs

1. second-person singular present active subjunctive of mercō

• “merces”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “merces”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• merces in Dizionario Latino, Olivetti
• "merces", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “merces”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to be hired, suborned: mercede conductum esse
    
  • (ambiguous) the stipulated reward for anything: pacta merces alicuius rei
    
  • (ambiguous) to set out goods for sale: exponere, proponere merces (venales)
    
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “mercenary”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

• Hyphenation: mer‧ces

merces

1. plural of merce